Oh, man... this album sure is a skeleton in my closet... how embarrassing, to have to admit to owning this! It's Maroon 5's highly-successful debut album, released in 2002.
Recording quality, you ask? Unfortunately the Loudness Wars strike again, for most of the singles and the song Sweetest Goodbye. Sigh. And the ballad She Will Be Loved achieves a double-word score for the drums being both overly processed and clipping badly. The recording of the other songs on the album isn't to my taste either, sounding overly processed in the style of the early "nu-metal" sound.
Ok, I'll stop procrastinating... onto the music. The poppy blend of rock and funk does have its moments. This Love has an excellent groove and a classic singalong chorus (although the song often feels like padding between choruses). Likewise, Harder to Breathe features a catchy groove.
My favourite song is Not Coming Home, somehow the stop-start chorus really appeals, and the groove is very catchy.
As expected most of the rest of the album is superficial funk-pop. The lyrics are often random smatterings of cliched lines, with very lazy rhyming. Even worse than the embarrassment of owning this album is that I don't really dig the funk elements. Therefore I must admit my favourites are the sugar-coated pop hits. Damn, there goes any last shred of respect for my taste!
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